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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. From 2001 to 2008, I was hospitalized for mania at a rate of almost once per year (7 times in 8 years)—including one month-long hospitalization. If the system says I am a 6.8